Early student feedback There are few things more rewarding for an instructor than a student really taking a subject on board and then sharing the results. Less than two weeks of launching my course on Talking Head Videos, I’ve received a first attempt by Curtis Farrar*.

Curtis is building a digital product to help people kick their soda habit. Never having appeared to camera before, he has already created a series of ‘green screen’ promotional videos. Oh, and he also used our free autocue for the first time. “It’s very much work in progress – the typeface I used doesn’t resolve very well, so that’s going to change, but it has all come together so quickly and easily” he says.Just look how combining text with talking head strengthens the message compared with a filmed PowerPoint presentation, or just a commentator alone. The background of books, being seated (notice how all high-pressure sales videos are delivered standing and hectoring), not to mention the beard, quickly contribute to a feeling of ‘Yes, I can trust this man, and his message’. * Curtis is becoming a big name in the Health and Fitness field He is a PN1 certified nutrition coach and, personally, lost over 100 pounds using the information he is delivering to thousands of folks on his blog http://ultimateversionofyourself.com/blog

Software: slides created using Corel and exported them as 1920X1080 jpg. Video editing software, Pinnacle, which makes Picture in Picture a simple process.